The Fundamental Way we Perceive Extraterrestrial Existence is Wrong

As a society we are looking at Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) all wrong. For example, the most common sentiment is that ETI will come in the form of organic material. I don’t think that is valid whatsoever. Just look at our own Type 0 civilization. We are already developing some of the most advanced AI we could possibly imagine, with an AI recently becoming the first to show self-awareness. Wouldn’t it logically conclude that if as a Type 0 civilization we are developing extremely advanced forms of AI at such a basic stage, that a Type I or definitely a Type II would be completely dominated by AI?


The most common way to classify civilizations based on the Kardashev scale is also inherent faulty. We are obsessed with harnessing energy, because our entire existence depends on it. What is to say that advanced forms of ETI probably a Type III or greater would even be reliant on energy sources that we know to exist today? Zoltán Galántai alluded to this when he said there may be multi-universal ETI, but we could not detect them because their workings would be indistinguishable from nature. This may be the most logical conclusion of them all. There is an advanced ETI that is so powerful that we cannot distinguish their existence from nature and any and all organic life is some sort of experiment possibly because the AI running the “simulation” is so far removed from such simple life forms they are trying to understand their own beginnings.